Conveyer for restaurants.



No. 823,470. PATENTED JUNE 12,1906.

T. HOLMES. OONVEYBR FOR RESTAURANTS,

APPLIGATION FILED AUG.Z1, 1903- UNITEij STATES PATENT O ICE.

THORVALD HOLMES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

-CONV EYER oe RESTAURANTS.

Todill whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, THORVALD HOLMES, a

I citizen of the United States, residing at No.

984' Northdiedzie "avenue, Chicago, in the count of Cook and State ofIllinois, have in' was certain new and useful Im roveinents in'Conveyers ,for Restaurants, Y which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvement in restaurant service; and the obect of my invention is to facilitate the serving of meals in restaurantsand the dining-rooms of hotels.

I- attain the objects by the use of certain 1 new and novel features ofconstruction and 311?, in-which-- Y ran-e1 isa plan view of adining-room and 'tchemshowin'g the arr ement'oi' the arrangglment ofparts that will be hereinafter more lyset forth, ointed out in theclaims, and illustrated in .t e accompanying drawdining-tables,conveyors, and elivery-cabidz endless elt B which travelsover drums C C,so

' cabinet inthe kitchen. and t e opposite one at a suitable point,preferably in the center of net, fas contemplatedby my invention. Fig. 2isf a side. elevation of; the conveyor that carrice the filled: dishesfrom'thevkitchen to the 2 5 dining-roomand the 'emptydishes from thedining-room to the kitchen. p

Re err' in detail to; the accompanying s, t e conveyer A comprisesa-wide one of which is arranged ad'a'cent a delivery- The drum C in thekitchen much larger than the drum in the diningssl,

room, and these drums are so arranged as v that the belt travelingfrom'oneto the other occupies a horizontal plane,

i Arranged immediately in front of the drum 0 within the kitchen is aair of small drums the drum C in the kitchen is a series of hori--'-izontally-arra with that portion of the belt that travels between thedrum 0 in the dining-room and ,1 .hori zont all E,'b etween which the bet asses in order to 1 give it a downward turn be ore it passes onto thedrum ad'acent the delivery-cabinet.

'. Arranged etween these drums E Eand ed'rollers-that are in alinernentthe first one of the drums E. Lsimilar set of -arranged rollers Dispositioned immediate y in front of the drum C in the dining-room,which last-mentioned rollers are horizontal alinement with the upperSpecification. of Letters Patent. Application filed August 21, 1903.square. 170.356-

Patentedd'une the kitchen to the drum in the dining-room. The drums Cand E and the two sets of of the belt as it travels from the drum invrollers D are all journaled in a suitable frame- -Work that is supportedbythe: legs F.,

The conveyer is preferably; arranged at about the same level as anordinary ,dining- I table, and said conveyer is so'driven by'an'ysuitable means as that the upper portion thereof carries the dishesortrayson which said dishes are placed from the delivery-c abinet in thekitchen to the series of rollers D in the dining-room, and the lowerportion of the belt carries the trays and dishes from the dining-roomtothe series of rollers'D in the kitchen.

- The menu-conveyors G G are endless belts and are arranged to travelaround suitable rollers, and sai conveyers are held supported overheadata distance of about seven feet from the floor, and they are used forcarrying menu-cards from the dining-room into the kitcheh. The ends ofthese conveyers in the sugar, &c. The space between "the center pieceand the edge of the table is adapted to receive the dishes in which thefood is placed, each particular set of dishes for the individual dinersbeing preferably placed" on suitable traIvs. (Not shown.)

he operation of m improved restaurant device is as follows: he patronupon entering the dining-room receives a 'menu-card containing the namesof the dishes that are served and afterchecking ofi'the dishes he Idesires hands the card to an attendant or waiter, who writes upon itsface with a 001- ored pencil the number of the table and the chairoccupied by" the patron. 'The attendlivere into the receptacle Hwithinthe delivery-cabinet in the kitchen. Here it is dant now places the cardon'o'ne of the menuconve ers, and it is carried thereby and detaken upby an operator in the delivery-cabinet, who notes the dishes desired bythe patron and places said. dishes upon a tray, to which is attached themenu-card, and then places said tray upon the top of the conve er A. Bythis conveyer the tray is delivered to the series of rollers D Withinthe diningroom, where it is taken up by the waiter, who observes thenumber of the chair and table Written upon the menu-card, and thus saidtray can be delivered to the proper patron. After finishing the meal thepatron takes the menu-card to the cashier, and the marks therei onindicate the amount of the patrons bill, and when. paid the card may hereturned to the patron as a receipt and souvenir. After the patron hasfinished the meal the tray, with its contents, is removed from the tableby a Waiter and placed on the lower portion of the conveyer A and bymeans of the same is carried into the kitchen and delivered onto theseries of rollers D inthe kitchen, from whence it is removed by anattendant.

By the use of a restaurant device of my improved construction the numberof attendants and the work required in serving patrons of a dining-roomis greatly lessened, and the transferring of dishes to and from thedining-room can be accompl shed much quicker 0 and with much betterresults than where Waiters are-employed to carry the dishes ing-room toa predetermined point in the kitchen of the restaurant; substantially asspecified.

2. In a restaurant device, a pair of drums suitably jour'naled atdifferent points in the restaurant, an endless belt passmgover saiddrums, a pair of small drums journaled so as to cause the belt to traveldownwardly fore passing onto one of the first-mentioned drums, sets ofhorizontally-arranged rollers transversely arranged in front of thedischarge ends of the belt, anda pair of smaller conveyers leading fromsuitable points within the diningroom to a common poi t within thekitchen adjacent one of the ischarge ends of the first-mentionedconveyers, substantially as specified.

THORVALD HOLMES. \Vitnesses 1 HARRY LEA DonsoN, W. L. 'BUonANAN.

